 And, since blank paper is denied the press, He mingles the whole alphabet by guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which...  Temple Bar - Page 1451865Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the Sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke ; The priests found out the meaning, if they cou'd ; And nations star'd at what none... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the Sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke; The priests found out the meaning, if they could; And nations star'd at what none... | |
 | Edward Young - Drama - 1811 - 294 pages
...guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the Sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke -, The priests found out the meaning, if they cou'd ; And nations star'd at what none... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...guess ; In various sets, which various words compose, Of which he hopes mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke ; The priests found out the meaning if they could, And nations stared at what none... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 984 pages
...BY GUESS, In various sets, which various words compose, Of which he hopes mankind the meaning knows. So, sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke ; The priests found out the meaning if they could ; And nations stared at what none... | |
 | Edward Young - 1844 - 352 pages
...guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke ; The priests found out the meaning, if they could ; And nations star'd at what none... | |
 | Edward Young - 1854 - 692 pages
...guess, J In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the Sibyl broke ; Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke : 100 The priests found out the meaning, if they could ; And nations stared at what... | |
 | Edward Young - 1859 - 376 pages
...guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke ; The priests found out the meaning, if they could ; And nations star'd at what none... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1865 - 280 pages
...the Irish Saints. They stand mute, Poor innocent dumb things; they are but wood. BEN JONSON. T HIS should be cancelled; and I would substitute :— "...understand their own utterances. Are we approaching tableolatry ? Some very wise ancients were content to worship wooden divinities that could generally... | |
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...guess : In various sets, which various words compose, Of which, he hopes, mankind the meaning knows. So sounds spontaneous from the sibyl broke, Dark to herself the wonders which she spoke ; The priests found out the meaning, if they could ; And nations stared at what none... | |
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